Coin-holder.



No. 837,685. PATBNTED DEG. 4, 190e.

' R. B.. KINTZ.

COIN HOLDER.

APPLIoATIoN FILED JUNE a, 1906.

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ROBERT R. KINTZ, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

COIN-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906..

Application filed June 8, 1906. Seralhlo. 320,715.

To LZ/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT R. KINTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coin-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of a coin-holder constructed in accordance with my invention, Fig. 2, a top view of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional view on the line a b of Fig. 2 with the outside strip removed; Fig. 4, a vbroken side view of the upper end of the holder partially turned from the position shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 5, an enlarged transverse sectional view 3 Fig. 6, a side view illustrating a modified form which my coin-holder may assume Fig. '7, a top or plan view of the same Fig. 8, a broken vertical section of the same,

This invention relates to an improvement in coin-holders, and particularly to such as consist of a cylindrical body corresponding in diameter to the diameter of coins to be placed therein, the bodies having slots through which the edges of the coins may be observed and graduated to indicate the sum contained in the body, such holders being adapted for use in banks and counting-houses for holding coins or for home savings-banks or as a convenient means for carrying coins 3 and the invention consistsin the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

In one form of my invention, as shown in Figs. 1 to 5 of the drawings, I employ a cylindrical body 2, formed from a strip of metal which is bent into cylindrical form, the edges being slightly separated to form a narrow longitudinal slot 3. Preferably the longitudinal edges 4 and 5 will be folded over on the face of a cylinder on opposite sides of a slot 3, forming lips to receive and retain a strip 6, of paper, Celluloid, or other suitable material, which may be folded around the body and which may bear advertising or other printed matter. At the lower end the edge of the metal is turned in to form a bottom flange 7, and around the exterior of the upper end of the body is an open ring 8,

I the ends of which extend beneath the edges l 4 and 5. This ring is split throughout a porl tion of its length to form a spring-finger 9,

the outer end of which is turned outward to 6o form a finger-piece 10, and near the outer end is a pin Il, adapted to pass through a hole formed for it in the body 2, this pin serving to hold the coins in place in conjunction with one or more lugs or projections 12, formed in the inner face of the body near the top thereof and preferably at a point diametrically opposite the pin 1l.

If desired, the outer covering or paper strip may be omitted, in which case the edges 7o of the cylinder will be brought substantially together, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, in which figures and in Fig. 8 is illustrated modified means for holding the coins. In this modi fied form the lugs 13, corresponding to the lugs 12, will be formed one on either side of a slot 14, formed by the edges of the body and to the opposite side of the body, and on the outside thereof will be attached a spring 15, having a finger-piece 16 and a pin I7, adapt 8o ed to pass through a hole formed for it near the upperend of the body and preferably diametrically opposite the slot.

It will thus be seen that in either 'form of my invention coins may be readily inserted into the bodies, the number of coins therein being visible between the edges of the body and the amount indicated by the figures at the edge thereof, that the coins are held in position, and yet when it is desired to re- 9o move them that may be conveniently done by withdrawing the spring-pin.

These holders can be manufactured at low cost and sold as regular articles of commerce or distributed for advertising purposes.

I claiml. A coin-holder comprising a body formed from a strip of-metal rolled into cylindrical shape, the edges thereof being slightly se a a pin pro]ecting from said spring into said body,

and lugs secured to the rated, one end of the body turned inwar to roo' the opposite end, said ring-split I io ra pin projecting from said spring into said inner face of the body opposite said springbody, and lugs secured to the inner face of pin, substantially as described. the body opposite said spring-pin, substan- 3. A coin-holder comprising a body formed tially as described.

from a strip of metal rolled into cylindrical In testimony whereof I have signed this I 5 shape, the edges of the body doubled, a cov` l specification in the presence of two subscrib- Jrling for said lbodylcseclreddtllereto by the ing witnesses.

o ded edges t ereo, t e e ge at one end turned inward forming a bottom flange, a i ROBERT R' KINTZ divided ring secured to the outer face of the Witnesses:

opposite end, said ring-split forming e spring, CHRIST SCHEURER,

RUDOLPH L. KINTZ. 

